Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails • Hacker News Board

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by xfax » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

From Ankit Fadia's About Me page (http://www.ankitfadia.in/aboutankitfadia.html):

  In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified       intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent   by one of Osama Bin Laden's men. Since then Fadia has been involved in numerous classified projects pertaining to cyber terrorism and crime. In August 2008, Fadia was consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace the terror email sent just a few minutes before the Gujarat serial blasts. Fadia was also consulted by the Mumbai Police for decoding VOIP messages in relation to the Mumbai terror attacks.

If this is the state of affairs at the Indian intelligence agencies, perhaps they shouldn't even bother.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by pawelwentpawel » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

yogeshkhatri wrote: post #18

phatbyte wrote: post #4

I couldn't resist, his website is amazingly funny too http://rahultyagi.net/Home.html

and try to click in the submenu that appears on hovering on "Talk to Me". Its tricky.

Tricky it is indeed. I've opened his twitter profile and apparently he is an Actor, Author, Ethical Hacker, Hardcore Gamer, Motivational Speaker and has 37k followers.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by ranjeet487 » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:00 PM UTC

Ankit Fadiya is my Ideal person. I like it.

i am also doing Internet security with Ethical Hacker.

Ranjeet Kr. Singh B.E. In IT (SBCET, Jaipur) r.singh487@hotmail.com

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by xfax » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:00 PM UTC

phatbyte wrote: post #4

I couldn't resist, his website is amazingly funny too http://rahultyagi.net/Home.html

I don't know man, I mean, I do want to hack the hackers before they hack me. Don't you?

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by wisty » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:01 PM UTC

vkkan wrote: post #10

more funny thing was at this page http://rahultyagi.net/About%20me.html

Hostgator. Pretty swish.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by FlyingSnake » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:09 PM UTC

These guys are snake oil salesmen and they fool unsuspecting students and institutes and profit by their naivete.

The crap they sell under the name of 'Hacking' is absolutely pathetic and at best they succeed in creating script kiddies.

This is not HN worthy, but tangentially all the HNers subconsciously despise idiots like these.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by Achshar » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:09 PM UTC

I am an Indian and i don't think they are any kind of whizkid. They are just good at selling themselves to media and today's generation who happen to think they are computer geniuses. Youth here thinks they are huge deal (i have myself heard about Ankit Fadia a number of times in the wild, always in the context "computer problem? contact Ankit Fadia"). I respect their interest in computers but i blame these men completely for their delusional behavior. Either that or they are hired by some more, uhm, typical hackers to cover for their public image. But i don't think my country's intelligence is this sophisticated because as Ankit Fadia's about me page states, our defense people think decrypting emails is the job of a hacker. God forbid they find out stuxnet or Flame and who their makers are. India has technical talent, but other people here tend to overshadow the small intelligent discussions one can expect.

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by naiquevin » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:10 PM UTC

yogeshkhatri wrote: post #18

phatbyte wrote: post #4

I couldn't resist, his website is amazingly funny too http://rahultyagi.net/Home.html

and try to click in the submenu that appears on hovering on "Talk to Me". Its tricky.

and "Mail me" is a link to gmail.com!

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by Auguste » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:10 PM UTC

xfax wrote: post #21

From Ankit Fadia's About Me page ( http://www.ankitfadia.in/aboutankitfadia.html ): In November 2001, Fadia was consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden's men. Since then Fadia has been involved in numerous classified projects pertaining to cyber terrorism and crime. In August 2008, Fadia was consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace…

Attrition.org has more details on this claim here: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/fadia13.ht...

"Are we really to believe the U.S. National Security Agency went to a 16 year-old foreign national in India with no published research on encryption to enlist his help decrypting stegonography-hidden messages that used three customized encryption algorithms using just his desktop computer? Absolutely not."

Re: Rahul Tyagi: Jericho Emails

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Post by SudarshanP » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 1:10 PM UTC

nsns wrote: post #8

The strange fact is that Tyagi isn't offended by anything said about his book, he simply plays for time until he receives assurance that his book (and email conversation!) will be featured on Attrition... He will probably add a link saying, "Featured on Attrition!" hoping none of his clients bothers to read it.

Does he(Tyagi) get pagerank for this chaos ;-) At least a few guys will link to his site without a rel=nofollow ;-)